Water

• Documentary: Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008)
• Short film: The Story of Bottled Water (from The Story of Stuff project)
• Documentary: Tapped (2009)
• Doc: FLOW: For the Love of Water
• Article: Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?
• Site: Waterfootprint.org
• Doc: Tapped

Oil

• Presentation: TED Talks - Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil
• Doc: The Cost of Oil Addiction
• Doc: Peak Oil, Visually Explained
• Film: 300 Years of Fossil Fuelled Addiction in 5 Minutes
• Doc: Fuel

Outsourcing

• Article: Outsourcing: Job Killer or Innovation Boost? (Business Week)
• Article: Cultural Politics of Outsourcing in India
• Article: Outsourcing Your Life
• Article: How Americans feel about Outsourcing (poll results)
• Article: The Future of Outsourcing (Business Week)

International Organizations promoting economic globalization (WTO, IMF, etc.)

• WTO site
• IMF site
• Academic paper: IMF Programs: Who is chosen and what are the effects?
• Doc: Life and Debt: Globalization's effects on Jamaica
• Interview: Naomi Klein on the G20
• Doc: The New Rulers of the World

Transnational Corporations

• Doc: No Logo: Brands. Globalization. Resistence.
• Short film: Life Inc.
• Doc: College, Inc.
• Doc: Is Wal-mart Good for America?
• Doc: Corporations on Trial
• Doc: The New Rulers of the World
• Prezi: Wal-mart: Is it Good for America? - good for getting a feel for a few of the major issues that you can then research
• Short films: The Story of Stuff

The Food Industry

• Site: Food Inc. Movie
• Doc: The Future of Food
• Doc: The Cost of a Coke
• Doc: Agriculture's Exploitation of Migrant Workers
• Doc: Food Matters
• Site: The Meatrix about animals in the food industry

Human Rights: Women's Rights and Children's Rights

• Site-Invisible Children (Documentary): Invisible Children
• UN Women site
• Site: UNICEF - Children and rights
• Paper: Women and Children's rights: Making the Connection (UN)
• Video: UN Women and Children's Rights intro to the article above
• Video: UNICEF Supports women workers in Pakistan

Intellectual Property Rights

• Doc: RIP: A Remix Manifesto
• Doc: Freedom of Expression
• Article: 6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet
• Short Vid: Prometeus: The Evolution of Media?
• Short Vid: What is Creative Commons?
• Article: Culture Jam excerpt - Mass media
• News article: New York Man faces fines for linking to videos online

Pollution/Alternative Means of Energy

• Doc: Green Cities and the End of the Age of Oil
• Doc: Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Doc: Addicted to Plastic
• Much more on Films for Action site and beyond http://www.filmsforaction.org/
• Site: Environmental issues and resources

HIV/AIDS

• Fact sheet on HIV/AIDS in Africa on the Stephen Lewis Foundation website
• United Nations Global AIDS Report 2010
  • AIDS Scorecards for speicifc countries
  • Global prevalence map of HIV/AIDS
  • HIV/AIDS fact sheets about HIV/AIDS

General Resources

• Films for Action http://www.filmsforaction.org/
• LinkTV-Documentaries, etc.: Link TV